A Thought For A Lonely Death-Bed
And smile away my mortal to Divine !
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Drear wine-press,--by the wilderness out-spread,--
IF God compel thee to this dest
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Permitted desolations, comfort mine !
Pray then alone, O
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By thy forsaken Sonship in the red
No deathly angel twixt my face aud thine,
Fell bloody
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To die alone, with none beside thy bed
And mark with tears the pulses ebb from thee,--
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No earthly friend being near me, interpose